Smithers Interior News -- Environmentalists say spill adds doubt to pipeline safety

British Columbian environmentalists are pointing to Enbridge's recent Manitoba spill as another failure of the company to protect the environment while Virden's mayor says his community is not particularly panicked.

"Enbridge keeps telling us that their record is really solid and that they have so few spills for the amount of oil that they move and yet there just seems to be news that pops up again and again about them spilling oil," said Nikki Skuce, a ForestEthics campaigner. "This recent spill that they had in Manitoba was into a creek and I think that's what people are really worried about across the pipeline route."

She said events like this cement further doubt into the projet.

"We all care about wild salmon and the health of our rivers and I think that's why there's such strong and growing opposition to this Enbridge pipeline," she said. "People don't trust what they're saying."

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